Burrhus Frederic Skinner was one of the preeminent American psychologists of the 20th century. B.F. Skinner founded “radical behaviorism”—a twist on traditional behaviorism, a field of ...

Burrhus Frederic Skinner, commonly known as B.F. Skinner, was an American psychologist who spent his career studying concepts of behaviorism. Behaviorism is an approach to psychology that focuses ...

Burrhus Frederic Skinner became one of the nation’s most influential psychologists. His theory of operant conditioning, with its ideas about reinforcement through rewards and punishments ...

Ivan Pavlov’s salivating dogs, Burrhus Frederic Skinner’s ping pong-playing pigeons, Harry Harlow’s love-starved rhesus monkeys — these laboratory animals have entered into the pantheon of ...

Burrhus Frederic Skinner studied observable behavior along with its causes and consequences. He showed how people given positive reinforcement are likely to repeat the action. When a small ...

One of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes was awarded posthumously to Burrhus F. Skinner (1904-1990), a well-known American psychologist, for what he himself called a “crackpot” project in 1960 to ...

A Second World War project which involved training pigeons to pilot bombs has won this year's spoof Nobel peace prize. The Ig Nobel gongs - awarded annually by the science humour magazine the ...